While we know that Tiberius spent the last ten years of his reign ... most important generals and statesmen in Rome. But he ...

As much as Julius Nepos refused to recognize his legitimacy and continued to hold the title in parallel until his death in ...

Tiberius had waited a long time to be emperor and had made many ... Still insecure, the last thing Tiberius wanted back in Rome was a war hero with a claim to the throne. He appointed Germanicus ...

Because the Roman Emperor himself, Septimius Severus ... where York is today. But peace didn’t last long. Once he was gone, the Maeatae and the Caledonians rebelled. Severus was too old and ...

Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius.

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

Once emperor and without an obvious heir, he had adopted Augustus. He may have been the first to choose a successor and call it hereditary succession, but he was not the last – Claudius ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...